Unexpected downtime

Unfortunately the hosting company where this blog lives had some problems last night. As I understand it from my buddies, they my virtual server running on a RAID-system with two disks. One of the disks had died recently and new disks were ordered and were scheduled to be replaced this morning…. Unfortunately the second disk died also, las night :-(

I spotted the fact that the box was borked this morning. I left a message on the irc-channel where I know the admins hang out most of the time and left for work. Before I reached work I had SMS’ses and voicemails from all three of the admins explaining the problem and telling me they were working on the fix. That is, they were trying to salvage as much of the data as possible as well as working on getting the machine up and running again.

The team definately deserves some compliments. Especialy Jurrit worked hard on getting back my data, on fixing wordpress and so on (hope he hasn’t gotten any gray hairs over it yet!). Most of the wordpress stuff worked when he was done, I only had to fix the categories again. While doing so I also found a bug in wordpress so I reported it. Progress on that can be read here.

All I have to do, now, is to setup my photogallery again, stay tuned!

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One Response to Unexpected downtime

  1. Jody Roth says:

    Had the same problem brother except the guy didn’t even have a RAID setup, he had just one hard drive. I ended up moving to another host with more security.

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